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Lynne Truss Quote: “I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons.”

51. “I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether – and in what detail – to describe the face of a character.”

52. “One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether – and in what detail – to describe the face of a character.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.”

53. “Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “Don’t pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?”

54. “Don’t pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.”

55. “What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician’s assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.”

56. “So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician’s assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “One moment you can say the words ‘I am’. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.”

57. “One moment you can say the words ‘I am’. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “Punctuation is no more a class issue than the air we breathe.”

58. “Punctuation is no more a class issue than the air we breathe.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “Once someone has shown you a convincingly different way of looking at the world, it’s hard to remember how you saw it before.”

59. “Once someone has shown you a convincingly different way of looking at the world, it’s hard to remember how you saw it before.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “There is even a rather delightful publication for children called “The Punctuation Repair Kit”, which takes the line “Hey! It’s uncool to be stupid!” – which is a lie, of course, but you have to admire them for trying.”

60. “There is even a rather delightful publication for children called “The Punctuation Repair Kit”, which takes the line “Hey! It’s uncool to be stupid!” – which is a lie, of course, but you have to admire them for trying.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “In fact, it seemed to me that every single item on the news – concerning economic doom and political hypocrisy and social breakdown – was not “news” at all. What I could hear was just a series of utterly transparent ploys to frighten and alarm the listeners – and frighten them, moreover, about the wrong things. The.”

61. “In fact, it seemed to me that every single item on the news – concerning economic doom and political hypocrisy and social breakdown – was not “news” at all. What I could hear was just a series of utterly transparent ploys to frighten and alarm the listeners – and frighten them, moreover, about the wrong things. The.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “Blood was now spurting in all directions, and the almighty purr was deafening.”

62. “Blood was now spurting in all directions, and the almighty purr was deafening.”

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Lynne Truss Quote: “When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to “get a life” by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Naturally we become timid about making our insights known, in such inhospitable conditions.”

63. “When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to “get a life” by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Naturally we become timid about making our insights known, in such inhospitable conditions.”

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